January 13th, 2013 by nathan | Comments Off on What is Cloud Hosting?

In recent years the buzz around Cloud hosting has become prevalent in daily technology lingo. Often times you may have already been using the cloud without even knowing it by visiting a website or even with your day to day online transactions. The cloud has been associated with innovation, stability and flexibility. Almost everything related to online commerce, applications and stability are now touting “the cloud” as a way to market their services as being more reliable and accessible. Major industry players such as Microsoft have spent large sums of advertising time and efforts to bring the cloud concept...

Small and Medium Sized Businesses, are increasingly looking for opportunities to eliminate capital expenditures in favour of predictable monthly revenues and infrastructures that provide a level of guaranteed uptime that their businesses expect in order to operate. In the past this would require an onsite server with a mix of remote VPN capabilities and support costs involved. Over the last decade and with recent breakthroughs in technology and infrastructure these businesses are now able to transition from this once very common onsite server setup entirely to the cloud virtually eliminating the need to have huge upfront capital expenditures, liabilities...